One of the major obstacles to integrating gender into legal education and legal doctrine in Latin America is the serious lack of teaching materials. The Transforming Women's Legal Status projectsought to address this need by developing Genero y Derecho, the first treatise of its kind to be written by Latin American legal scholars for Latin American academics. The textbook is aimed at law professors and legal educators for use throughout Latin America, taking advantage of the similarities in legal systems and substantive legal education. Genero y Derecho provides curricular materials for law professors teaching
traditional law courses, as well as professors teaching specialized courses on
gender and the law. To bridge the textbook's twin missions, the authors decided
to develop a textbook in a traditional format, organizing the different sections
according to traditional areas of the law, but addressing each from a gender
perspective. Each chapter contains articles addressing issues that are commonly
identified as gender issues, as well as articles analyzing topics not commonly
viewed as gender-related from a gender perspective, focusing on the ways that
assumptions about gender shape the structure, operation, and consequences of the
law in that particular area.